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Aquaman OS · 2012-09-21, 01:36

Age was just awful with female characters in general. They either existed to die to make a male character sad, existed to be a wife to give birth to another Asuno, then vanish from the plot (Emily and Romary were in what 2 episodes following their arcs conclusion), or were just side characters that could have been ignored.

Then again....Age was just terrible with characters in general. Since only the 3 Asuno's and Zeheart (and to a lesser extent Woolf and Millas) were prominant in more than one generation, it failed to establish a known supporting cast. None of them ever got to do anything memorable, so it looks like the world consists of only 4 characters. The entire 2nd gen supporting cast just vanished, never to be mentioned again. At least the 1st gen guys sort of got closure, except for Millias who vanished (apparantly she died in a side story or something) after gen 2. And said closure was pretty much always death.

And aside from Woolf everyone who didn't pilot a Gundam might as well not have been there. Largan did nothing, Obright in gen 2 and Max and Arisa did nothing, and for most of gen 3 neither did Seric's group. They only really got to do stuff during the final battle, and probably only because they were all going to die so the staff tried to make us care that the were.

So yes, more fail from Age for it's poor writing and failed generation gimmick that just crippled the story.

But otherwise Gundam wasn't going too bad female wise. 00, Seed, Destiny, Turn A all had a few female pilots, and keep their deaths to a minimum, usually only one per show.

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Aquaman OS Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2008	Age was just awful with female characters in general. They either existed to die to make a male character sad, existed to be a wife to give birth to another Asuno, then vanish from the plot (Emily and Romary were in what 2 episodes following their arcs conclusion), or were just side characters that could have been ignored. Then again....Age was just terrible with characters in general. Since only the 3 Asuno's and Zeheart (and to a lesser extent Woolf and Millas) were prominant in more than one generation, it failed to establish a known supporting cast. None of them ever got to do anything memorable, so it looks like the world consists of only 4 characters. The entire 2nd gen supporting cast just vanished, never to be mentioned again. At least the 1st gen guys sort of got closure, except for Millias who vanished (apparantly she died in a side story or something) after gen 2. And said closure was pretty much always death. And aside from Woolf everyone who didn't pilot a Gundam might as well not have been there. Largan did nothing, Obright in gen 2 and Max and Arisa did nothing, and for most of gen 3 neither did Seric's group. They only really got to do stuff during the final battle, and probably only because they were all going to die so the staff tried to make us care that the were. So yes, more fail from Age for it's poor writing and failed generation gimmick that just crippled the story. But otherwise Gundam wasn't going too bad female wise. 00, Seed, Destiny, Turn A all had a few female pilots, and keep their deaths to a minimum, usually only one per show.